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Good morning all. The Unicorn makes a rare appearance at the office today.
 
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Hi my kids choice for today 😀

And that's funny but I could quote @gbesq to express my feelings toward this great watch !
Indeed you could. Nice one!
 
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It appears that the wildlife in my yard likes my new addition too ….

that’s a beautiful lizard. My knowledge is outdated and fairly superficial; savannah monitor? Maybe a tegu?
 
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that’s a beautiful lizard. My knowledge is outdated and fairly superficial; savannah monitor? Maybe a tegu?
Anyone who can guess tegu isn’t doing half bad

Head and neck a bit blocky for a monitor family, and with rounded head scales I’m going for Shingleback 👎
 
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On this 10th anniversary of the SkyDweller, given absolutely zero attention in Rolex’s releases today (despite teasing “look skyward”), wearing mine in disappointed defiance

 
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that’s a beautiful lizard. My knowledge is outdated and fairly superficial; savannah monitor? Maybe a tegu?

Anyone who can guess tegu isn’t doing half bad
Head and neck a bit blocky for a monitor family, and with rounded head scales I’m going for Shingleback 👎

Yes, it's a "Shingleback" or "Bobtail" lizard, native to Australia.
They are wonderful little creatures, who have an unfortunate habit of sunning on road surfaces.
Being slow movers, many become part of the road......... I'm sure some people actually aim for them 🙁
I've rescued and rehabilitated a good number of them, as my work involves a lot of driving and working within road casements.
I've also seen a few very old-timers who could well be as old as my watch in that pic.

Animalia / Scientific Name : Tiliqua Rugosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiliqua_rugosa
 
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I've rescued and rehabilitated a good number of them, as my work involves a lot of driving and working within road casements.

thank you for your service!

love a good skink - we don’t have any nearly as impressive in size here in North America

but in a rare turn of events as between Australia / N America’s relative dangerousness of fauna, we do here in N America have two large bead-scaled lizards that are poisonous (though not in the skink family)!
 
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Yes, it's a "Shingleback" or "Bobtail" lizard, native to Australia.
They are wonderful little creatures, who have an unfortunate habit of sunning on road surfaces.
Being slow movers, many become part of the road......... I'm sure some people actually aim for them 🙁
I've rescued and rehabilitated a good number of them, as my work involves a lot of driving and working within road casements.
I've also seen a few very old-timers who could well be as old as my watch in that pic.

Animalia / Scientific Name : Tiliqua Rugosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiliqua_rugosa
Using 100% of my knowledge about lizards, I'm going to agree completely with you that it's a lizard.